Election poster for Daniel Richard French political candidate for the National Assembly for the UDF party 1993. The Union for French Democracy (French: Union pour la Democratie Francaise, UDF) was a centre-right political party in France. It was founded in 1978 as an electoral alliance to support President Valery Giscard d'Estaing in order to counterbalance the Gaullist preponderance over the political right in France